When I was trying to introduce myself in OOP I tried VB 4.0 and later I tried VB 5.0. According to my experience VB is not so fast. The Jet Engine is not that fast with big databases. I've tried one with 89,000 records and the search time was almost double as in VFP.
I'm a mixture of Albert Einstein and Arnold Schwarzenegger. The only trouble is that I got Einstein's body and Schwarzenegger's brain